Strange World Files·9h agoThe Ship That Sank at the DockChicago, 1915. 2,500 picnic passengers, two minutes, and a builder who “did not worry.”
The Sangyan·2d agoMana Mitra: A Best-Practice Case Study in Technology-enabled Governance and Disaster Risk ReductionCan familiar digital platforms be leveraged to make governance more responsive, participatory and effective, particularly during disasters…
Nicholas Monck·3d agoDisaster Aid Should Not PoliticizedFederal disaster relief has always rested on a simple premise: When a hurricane, flood, or wildfire overwhelms a state, the rest of the…
Bob Mayer·Oct 28The Military is Stockpiling for 90 DaysA recent DOD directive has military posts preparing to survive 90 days if the grid goes down.
Iram Ahmed·Oct 25The Sleeping Giant Beneath Our Feet: One of Earth’s Most Powerful Supervolcanoes Is Refilling With…Introduction: A Sleeping Giant Beneath the Earth’s Surface
Bob Mayer·Oct 25Bugging Out Is Usually the Wrong AnswerThe fantasy is the truck loaded, the family aboard, the city shrinking in the mirror.
Ramadhan Richo·Oct 25The Sand HipothesisI created this Hipothesis after a thought kept coming back to me over the past few days.
Severely Fictional·Oct 25My country is on fireWe all have been in this game before. When they discovered water, they made it into a source of income and sold it. When they discovered…
Nanmoon·Oct 24Why High-Altitude Earthquake Rescue Is a Different Kind of RaceAt 10:33 p.m. on October 22, a magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck Baqing County in Nagqu, Tibet. By October 23 at 1:00 p.m., it had killed 16…
